The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World, Hardcover - Linda Colley

Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.Publisher: Profile Boo...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.Illustrations: 1 x 16 pp pla...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Reducere. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with...

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Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and inte...

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In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

Reducere. It is rare for an individual in history to have successfully made such a mark on their world that people are still talking about them centuries aft...

Description"Flawless . . . Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."--Robert...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring tim...

A compelling account of the crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling }The Peacemake...

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understandi...

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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

A comprehensive look at the life and continuing influence of 16th-century scientific genius and occultist Dr. John Dee - Presents an overview of De...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Linda NochlinIllustration(s): 126 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

Reducere. The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several n...

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? What was the visual impact of seeing th...

Reducere. When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and...

Reducere. Joseph Arthur Simon's The Greatest of All Leathernecks is the first comprehensive biography of John Archer Lejeune (1867-1942), a Louisiana native ...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

DescriptionHow did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play i...